Over the next two weeks he grew progressively worse. During one of his visits, Bernini's nephew, an Oratorian priest, Father Filippo (Domenico says Francesco) Marchese, asked him about the state of his soul and whether he was afraid to die. Baldinucci indicates that Bernini replied, "Father, I must render an account to a Lord who in his goodness does not count in farthings."
Gianlorenzo Bernini, cited in J. Morrissey, The genius in the design (2005), 266-7
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